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Cover of National Competitive advantage of Switzerland
by Beat Flury
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: H7 (Fin), University of Kuopio (Department of Business and Management), course: Competitve Strategy Competitive Advantage, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Switzerland has been a poor nation...
Cover of Report on the Dutch economy
by Arne Noack
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: A, Vrije University Brussel (Vesalius College), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Dutch empire had played a quite big role in the worlds politics and economics in the end of the 18th and...
Cover of The 'Brain Drain' problem: The case of India
by Sebastian Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 2,3, Ashcroft International Business School London, course: International Economics II, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The objective of the present assignment is to identify and evaluate...
Cover of Central and East European Migrants' Contributions to Social Protection
by S. Maatsch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012

In 2001 Germany and Austria became the last EU states to lift transnational controls restricting access to their labour markets for citizens of ex-communist countries. This book challenges anti-immigration discourses to show that given the high percentage of skilled immigrants, it is the sending rather than the receiving countries who lose out.
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The Invisible Safety Net

Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families

by Janet M. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008

In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack. Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and...
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The Job Guarantee

Toward True Full Employment

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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013

This timely collection will be the first of its kind to focus on the practical application of the government job guarantee (JG) for both developed and developing economies. Global case studies include: United States, China, Ghana, Argentina, Ireland, Iceland, and India.
Cover of The Nature of Economies
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002

From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy. Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has...
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Good Jobs and Social Services

How Costa Rica achieved the elusive double incorporation

by D. Sánchez Ancochea, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez Ancochea
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013

Few countries have achieved social development, which requires simultaneously securing market and social incorporation (good jobs and access to social services). This book reviews Costa Rica's experience as one of the few successful cases of double incorporation in the periphery.
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Introduction to Community Development

Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning

by Jerry W. Robinson, Gary Paul Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010

This text provides students of community and economic development with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field. Bringing together leading scholars, it provides both a conceptual background and contemporary approaches, with a progression from theory to practice. Included are case studies and supportive material to develop community service-learning activities.
Cover of International Practices of Smart Development
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

Smart people make a smart city. This volume presents a collection of papers on the concept of smartness, smart development and the international practices in the field. There are five key topic areas: the conceptual, smart economy, smart specialisation, smart city and public governance. The concept...
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Bad Times

An Essay on the Present Depression of Trade, Tracing It to Its Sources in Enormous Foreign Loans, Excessive War Expenditure, the Increase of Speculation and of Millionaires, and the Depopulation of the Rural Districts; With Suggested Remedies

by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1885 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Bad Times' is an essay on the economics and policies of trade and governmental expenditure. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village...
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Social Economy

Communities, Economies and Solidarity in Atlantic Canada

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

This book contributes to the growing literature on the social economy from the particular perspectives of Atlantic Canadians who have been part of the Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network. It illustrates the importance of the sector to the region’s social, economic and public life...
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Economic Geography

Places, Networks and Flows

by Andrew Wood, Susan Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world’s economic geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. With intellectual roots dating to the nineteenth century, economic geography has traditionally sought to examine the spatial distributions...
Cover of Future Cities: 42 Insights and Interviews with Influencers, Startups, Investors
by Stefano L. Tresca
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015

Smart cities, drones, 3D printing, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, driverless cars, and other innovations that used to be sci-fi just a few years ago. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME By 2030 nearly 70% of the world’s population will be residents of a city. That...
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